| Mecca | | Dutch farmers in South Africa |
| Shahs | | desert named for Black Sand |
| Ganges | | An Indian social Class |
| Buddha | | Belief in One God |
| Bhutto | | Shifting Sand Dunes |
| IdiAmin | | People who flee to another country to escape persecution |
| Phosphate | | Leading Producer of Oil |
| dzongs | | Deadly African Fly |
| Mandela | | only West African Nation that was never a colony |
| Nile | | Area of North Africa that forms a border between desert and fertile land |
| Secular | | Large African Plain known for wildlife |
| Enclave | | Holy river of India |
| Gandhi | | Desert Dweller |
| Aral | | Assasinated, Female Prime Minister of Pakistan |
| Embargo | | area at the mouth of a river where soil is deposited |
| Kilimanjaro | | Restricting trade with another country |
| Monsoons | | Ancient Warriors of Japan |
| caste | | Underground rock layers that are filled with water |
| hieroglyphics | | Longest Chinese River |
| Garagum | | Holy city of Islam |
| Delta | | Grind this plant's roots to make flour |
| turkishstraits | | System of "Apartness" in South Africa |
| Deforestation | | Dictator of Uganda |
| SaudiArabia | | Sea that is shrinking |
| Ergs | | Iranian Kings |
| Aquifer | | a.k.a. Siddartha Gautama |
| Everest | | places for Muslims to pray |
| istanbul | | Places for Buddhist to pray |
| Refugees | | Tunisia, Algeria and Morrocco |
| Cassava | | Makes the yellow river yellow |
| Victoria | | Desert Green Spot |
| Plantains | | Japanese Poem |
| Archipelago | | Father of India |
| monotheism | | Persia |
| Sahel | | The first Australians |
| subsistence | | A country made of a group of islands |
| Dubai | | Largest African Lake |
| Tbilisi | | highest point in Africa |
| Bedouin | | Farming where steps are cut into the hills |
| Iran | | overgrazing drought |
| Mangrove | | Tropical tree with roots above and below the water |
| Liberia | | Capital of Georgia |
| Serengeti | | First black president of South Africa |
| desertification | | City with world's largest buildings and other attractions |
| Samurai | | Ancient Egyptian Writing |
| Apartheid | | Tropical Bananas |
| Oasis | | Bosporus, Sea of Marmara and Dardanelles |
| Savannas | | Widespread cutting of trees |
| Rubber | | Nonreligious |
| mosques | | Longest river in the world |
| Loess | | Tallest Mountain in the world |
| Deadsea | | Seasonal Winds that bring changes in the weather |
| Boers | | What the Belgians stole from the Congo |
| Maghreb | | A natural salt used for fertilizer |
| Aborigines | | A Small Country located inside a larger country |
| Terraced | | Constantinople |
| Haiku | | Tropical grasslands with few trees |
| tsetse | | Lowest point on the Earth's Surface |
| Yangtze | | farms that only grow enough to feed a family |